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I don't think it'd be wrong to pick up the issues again, one at a time, at a later date, but I'd like to put a can on it as for now so
I can go back to being more self-interested and neuroticwe can discuss other things.I mean, we could go on, but we're kind of arguing our side of giant issues by (excuse the weirdness) cutting out a slice and wedging them against each other and then just being really odd about it from that point. I mean how else do we get from "Abortion" to "The Basic Tenets of Empathy" to "Arguing the Immorality of Pragmatism"?
I will say though;
I agree with this entirely. The media was very right to call out Republican pragmatism when it was the only game in town around '02-'10.
However, I also think pragmatism, coupled with the inability to unlink literally every position from religion, was linked to the decline of conservative traditionalist ideas in the mainstream because it was seen as a two-faced lack of principles.
Let me argue in the realm of the weird here, again (oh man I said I'd stopped).
Imagine one of the many Republican senators caught with his pants down alongside a male escort had gone out and said;
If the Republican party of the time were to practice what they preached and forgive such a person, I don't think it would have stopped or stemmed the tide of the gay rights movement, but they would have looked better for it (and probably converted like 10 people to the traditional family values position).
I mean, I guess promoting such extreme self-denial (like if somehow becoming a monk meant sleeping with people you didn't want to) isn't great, but I'll always admire somebody who can stand up for their morals all the way no matter how wrong I think they are.
(If you can't tell, I've been thinking a lot about milquetoast dude who likes the dudes gay v drag performer all-in-on-whatever culture-is-the-gospel queer lately).
I've noticed a distinct tendency to photoshop the heck out of promo photos, even though the sets are they are look fine.
*There was once a Mega Construx Star Trek series, so think of that what you will.
Why do I have such a hard time with air conditioners.
Edit: It's working fine now. Well not really, because it's off and I intend to keep it that way, but the point is that the problem is gone.
Otherwise, all I can really think about right now is how LEGO DOTS comes out in about ten days and how I'm somehow managing to not have pre-ordered all the sets. The initial line-up is small, and most are budget sets, so it wouldn't be like how Friends last year ate my whole entertainment budget. This is how I will justify ignoring history and making the same mistake over.
In other news, my father has started listening to my Wincent Weiss CDs when I'm not even around.
I forgot where it was or most of the details of it, but I was suddenly reminded that that picture showed a kid with a jellybean on top of a pencil, where the eraser normally would be. It was captioned "In the future, people will be so smart they won't need erasers!"
Whoever wrote that caption did not understand how human learning works.
Nonetheless I opened it up, cleaned the evaporator coils as much as I could, and also found what seemed as a clog in the drain, so I unclogged it. So after struggling with reassembling it I try it out and it didn't take long for it to start leaking it again.
Whatever is called the feeling of satisfaction for a work well done, I'm having the opposite of that. I remember making good use of the draft function for the purpose of spreading out my forum activity.
Maybe they'll invent paper that self-erases!
I think that the worst sort of this feeling is when you do something, and it works for like an hour and then just borks again.
Though I'm kinda curious if it was the cleanup what fixed it or if the drain really was clogged.
I wonder if it's been like this for days and I just didn't notice since I've started writing out my posts in .txt
It turns out if you're distracted enough by contentious political discussions and don't sit around waiting for it, Toy Fair comes along earlier than expected.
What makes it even clearer is that the guys who cover Marvel Legends and such (ie. big boys toys) have already uploaded their many, many videos.
Now I have to go back to looking through gallery sites to find even the tiniest inkling of anything I'd care about...
They even experimented with taking away the like button for said videos, but I guess they saw that as a step too far.
* When asked "Did A happen because X", stating "Yes" or "A happened because X", without mentioning Y.
* Without prompting but on your own, stating "A happened because X", without mentioning Y.
Assume that it is not possible to meaningfully differentiate between "how much" A happened because of each of X and Y.
If you know that Y happened, and you don't mention X, you're misrepresenting the situation and presenting a falsehood.
If you know that Y happened, and are withholding it entirely to further something you want another person to think about X, then you're explicitly doing something wrong.
The same as before, except worse since now you're just attempting to use misrepresentation and falsehood for your own agenda.
Anyways, I have yet another boxed wine story somehow. Today whilst in the supermarket I saw an old man standing in front of the clearance aisles next to the boxed wine. I mean, not only do people not stare at boxed wine, but he was also really close and hunched over.
When I stepped closer, I noticed that he had placed a bottle on the aisle and was emptying one of the cartons of boxed wine into it. I was kind of shellshocked and just kept walking. I considered stopping to confront him, but an employee was walking past me right then. I opened my mouth to say something, but the employee headed right in the man's direction, so I kept walking.
However, I walked so far that I couldn't see what happened, or even if the employee noticed what the man was doing. Once I'd gotten my thoughts in order, I walked back to the clearance aisle, but both the man and the boy were gone.
I feel like a coward.
On the other hand, it's entirely possible that a seedy guy stealing boxed wine from a supermarket's clearance aisle would quickly turn violent if confronted. Plus, again, I kind of didn't believe that what I was seeing was actually happening, so it was hard for me to react immediately.
Even so, still feel like a coward.
(FYI, Anime-Planet offers such a choice too and I prefer Anime-Planet anyway.)
Texas Man Unable To Recognize Bad Pun
badgood idea. Even if he doesn't do anything he'd probably just shrug it off and ignore you, or start stealing more carefully.Maybe you should've told some other employee I 'unno
Edit: Said bad when I meant good, d'oh
county-level righties push through bills to declare their counties "LGBT-free zones"
lefties place fake "LGBT-free zone" signs at county borders and post images online
foreign folks cancel town partnerships
righties be like *surprised pikachu*
Then the righties concluded it's all fault of these nefarious lefties, as if they were ashamed of their own ideas.
I mean one google search and I got:
If I ran a town partnership with a place associated with this sort of press, I'd be sending out daily press releases with gigantic rainbow flags to quell the backlash (which is almost always swift, on random targets, and insane). Also:
anyone else think the guy holding the picture is an activist but I could 100% believe this being the guy who was seriously proposing the policy, mainly because of the look on his face, or was that on purpose?This is a real thing.
There's a real difference between what's presented here (boring normal gay people) and what the
right-wingtraditionalist conservatives will show their followers (people attempting to "queer the culture", who this article also conveniently ignores).It's a real disconnect in a "fox in the henhouse" way that I personally think boring, normal gay people* should start distinguishing themselves from (though, like, that's happening now apparently! albeit very slowly!).
There is that, yeah.
*I guess I should mention Arielle Scarcella usually makes videos with graphic descriptions of sex acts normally, but you get what I mean.